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...Disabled volleyball might sound like a charitable exhibition sport, but don't be fooled, says Neil Wilford, a British adviser to the Cambodian league. When an Australian Navy ship docked two years ago at the southern port of Sihanoukville, its volleyball team agreed to a friendly game against a local disabled squad. Before it started, one of the Australians took Wilford aside and asked how easy they should go on their opponents. "Just play as normal," Wilford smirked. The Cambodians trounced the Australians, spiking ball after ball past the red-faced servicemen. The game has since become an annual fixture...
...hurdle remains: finding a catalyst for the $700 million second phase of the redevelopment, which includes plans for a 650-room hotel next to the O2. Originally AEG expected to build a supercasino inside, but that idea got nixed by the government. One option is a cruise-ship terminal. AEG and the Port of London Authority are conducting a study to see if the Thames can be suitably dredged to allow the large ships to reach the O2. If given the go-ahead, this would open in time for the start of the 2012 London Olympics. Another possibility...
...show, I promise). The pool is at its most versatile during the story of Ceyx and Alcyone, played respectively by Arlo D. Hill ’08 and Carolyn W. Holding ’10. Ceyx is at sea when the gods hurl a powerful storm at his ship, and he is killed along with the rest of his crew. Meanwhile, Alcyone loses hope by the day, and when the gods permit Ceyx’s shade to visit her in a dream, her worst fears are confirmed...
...good on Dr. Dobson for choosing a third way. It certainly won’t work, but there’s something inspiring about seeing a captain go down with his ship in this age of highest-bidder politics. And at the moment when he realizes that the evangelical lobby is doomed to return to relative obscurity, he can always take out his frustration on the kids...
...returning to the past and, in particular, to a document that I encountered in my first year of graduate school. My cousin Jack Gilpin, Class of ’73, read a section of it at Memorial Church this morning. As John Winthrop sat on board the ship Arbella in 1630, sailing across the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a charge to his band of settlers, a charter for their new beginnings. He offered what he considered “a compass to steer by” – a “model...